Definition of "high status" []

• A position of superior status (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "As an older woman, she had high status and was in charge of certain dreamings that she had inherited with the land to which they were connected, down the female side of the family."
• "In spite of his high status and renown as a carver, Frebec didn't know what to make of the brown-skinned man, and was not comfortable around him."
• "But after having completed our in-depth study and analysis of five years of expert commentary on the Iraq War, despite the near-unanimity and the high status and IQ of our subjects, we now must allow for the possibility that with one exception, discussed below, the experts all got it wrong."